Landscape with an Antique Tomb and Two Wayfarers
1768
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over a sketch in black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/16 x 13 11/16 in. (21.5 x 34.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2009
Accession Number
2009.254
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Salomon Gessner · 1730–1788
Salomon Gessner was born in Zurich in 1730 into a family of printers and publishers, an upbringing that placed books, images, and ideas at the center of his world from an early age. Though largely self-taught as a visual artist, he received some instruction during a period in Berlin, where he encountered the German Rococo tradition, and his mature work reflects a deep absorption in the pastoral li...